Practical judgement in international political theory
Subtitle: selected essays
By: Chris Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780415564601; 9780415564618
Description: Chris Brown has been one of the most influential figures within international relations scholarship in the UK and has made contributions to debates on pluralism, rights, justice and human rights within the field of international political theory. This book collects together many of his most important influential articles.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The modern requirement : reflections on normative theory in a post-Western world; title: Ethics of co-existence; title: International theory and international society : the viability of the middle way; title: Universal human rights: a critique; title: Towards a neo-aristotelian resolution of the communitarian cosmopolitan debate; title: Cultural diversity and international political theory; title: The construction of a "realistic utopia" : John Rawls and international political theory; title: Not my department? : normative theory and international relations; title: Hegel and international ethics; title: "Turtles all the way down" : antifoundationalism, critical theory and international relations; title: Liberalism and the globalisation of ethics; title: Tragedy, tragic choices and international political theory; title: Cosmopolitanism, world citizenship and global civil society; title: On morality, self-interest and foreign policy; title: Selective humanitarianism : in defence of inconsistency; title: Practical judgement and the ethics of pre-emption; title: Bob Dylan, Live Aid, and the politics of popular cosmopolitanism.